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In Forum Settings the new default setting for Sort Field and Direction displays Subject / Descending.

My forums, and probably the vast majority of others, has always had the last post at the top of the forum so why is this not the default setting?

I have noticed that when I change the default to Last Post Time / Descending and press Submit Changes, the refreshed page displays the defaults as Last Post Time / Ascending which isn't what I requested.

My other question in connection to 'why has the default sort order changed to subject' is that if I do have to change everything manually back to the required Last Post Time / Descending how can I change all the forums at the same time instead of having to do them all separately?

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There is something posted HERE about the sort order is backwards in the control panel.


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Thanks Ruben. Still need to find out why the default is set as 'Subject' though when it really should be 'Last Post Time' and if there is a way to alter a global default setting for all forums at the same time.

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The default setting being Subject is a bug as well. Need to get that fixed.

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yea it looks like the list is just alpha sorted without a default.
Rick is on it though.


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Line 203 of admin/viewboard.php currently has this:
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if (!$sort_field) $sort_field = "posted";


That, should be this:

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if (!$sort_field) $sort_field = "last";


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I can't even get it to change. I realized this problem just today and went through and set my entire wine forum to sort (properly) by post date. However they all post ascending. I deliberately went in and set them to descending but it still leaves them at ascending in the public view. So it's not just a control panel "mis-display" in my forum - it won't let me change the order to most recent on top for some of my forums.

Like here -

http://www.wineintro.com/wineforum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=37

I have that set to descending but it seems to show ascending anyway.


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You'll need to upgrade to 7.5.2 in order to get that fixed. Since the field was only 3 characters in 7.5, 'desc' won't fit in the field so it defaults back to 'asc'.


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